Well... Ambrose wasn't the best Quaker in the world, as I'm not the best TMer 
in the world. Ambrose got busted and thrown in prison for stating a war with 
the Powhatan Indians. Scared the living daylights out of the other Settlers. He 
and his buddies were thrown in  jail and they wouldn't let him out until he 
pledged loyalty to Cromwell.LOL!


   

   From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" 
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
 To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
 Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2016 11:57 AM
 Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: TM, Quietism, & the Quakers
  
    MD, as one Western transcendentalmeditationist remarkably you evidently are 
part of a long line-bred traditionthat came out of European separatist 
spirituality. This dissertationI am reading describes this as like the genetics 
of cultural familialDNA, a “cultural genetics” passing as cultured from 
generationto generation. ..In your case the English Lollard antinoniam line 
toNew England affecting radical religion and politics. There wereother 
transcendentalist spiritual lines that migrated directly out ofEurope also 
which affected our American radical (transcendent) spirituality (equality) 
andpolitical sensibilities (rights) as to the proper role of church and State 
inour culture.
I would nominate you for a Maharishi Award in recognition of you and your 
family's long relationship with this.
-JaiGuruYou!    

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :

Good example, MD of how a spiritual movements can spread in a time.  Sort of 
like TM did in the 1950-70's. By shakti of experience and then word of mouth 
from family and friends.  That was the Quaker spiritual movement in its day.  
Mobility through kin and connection.  
Someone here in Fairfield with connection to Vermont and New England just 
handed me a 900 page dissertation that was written on the spread of what the 
author is calling,  'antinomianism' of various shades.  A study of separatist 
spirituality from European roots moving across New England, jumping and going 
around what was then the ISIS-like colony of its day, Massachusetts Colony to 
settle further into New England.  
A thesis in this work amongst others is that this separatist spirituality 
(different than religion) moved in its day following kin and business 
connection often through seaports and then inland.         
MD writes:My tenth Great Grandfather , Ambrose Dixon, was born in London in 
1623. He migrated to James Virginia about 1640. He came over as a ship's 
carpenter.He was a Quaker, living in a predominately Presbyterian community. He 
and a few other Quakers felt discriminated against for their faith and 
petitioned Lord Baltimore to move to Maryland where they were welcomed and 
granted land. I guess you could say he was *in* on the beginnings of the Quaker 
Sect and one of the first in the colonies.



---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote :

Yes, I had wondered this too and chronicled some of it in a subject thread here 
on FFL.  
Often those who were referred to as 'separatists' had quietism as a central 
practice in addition to may be having Ritam Bhara P (inspired) or attending 
spiritual (chakra) energy work (Pietists).  
Maharishi's tenet of 'collective meditation' is most similar to George Fox's 
movement in its day.  
Today someone like Ammachi or Janet Sussman are good examples of the spiritual 
practices of 'piety' at work.  Connie Huebner in Fairfield is a great example 
of the old spiritual line of inspirationists (RPB) coming out of Europe that 
goes way back.  They each blend quietism with their spiritual disciplines.  
It seems that every generation or so another one rises up with their manifest 
spiritual experience and a satsanga may form.   Generations of separatists 
generated a lot of writing that they passed around between each other in and 
across Europe.    
You would proly enjoy scrolling down through these posts on transcendentalist 
European separatists:

423860RE: In Quiet, European ancestral genealogy of transcendentalism
   
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/423860 
 ##

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <yifux...@yahoo.com> wrote :

Does TM have any European antecedents? .  The Quietist Movement arose in the 
Catholic countries: Italy, France, and Spain and is most associated with Miguel 
de Molinos, 1628 - 1696.A parallel type of thinking and practice arose through 
George Fox, but many rudimentary antecedents can be found, for example, some 
practices of certain Gnostics, Cathars, and Meister Eckhart..The online sources 
are using the term "contemplation" (Quietism would be an example). The sources 
use the term "meditation" implying meditation ON various religious images and 
themes including silent repetition of prayers and vocal prayers, as well as 
various religious rituals.  To clarify TM's place in the 17-th century 
controversy, we can isolate the Silence/Transcending aspect of TM, and for the 
same of discussion, forget the Puja part.  Then, TM would definitely be in the 
Quietist camp, since there's no imposition of any religious images (they may or 
may not arise spontaneously).  But all of this is heretical, as Miguel de 
Molinos found out some time after his Spiritual Guide was published.  At first, 
the Mystical approach of Molinos was accepted among many Catholics, but 
detractors eventually emerged such as Gottardo Bellhuoma, who in 1678 pointed 
out that (what he called the Quietism of Molinos), was definitely heretical 
since it elevated "contemplation" above "meditation (i.e. meditation "on" 
various religious images along with prayer)..Some key works or phrases in the 
Quietist movement:  self-annihilation (of the ego), self-absorption, withdrawal 
of the mind, passivity, and continual contemplation on "God" (i.e. the 
Absolute...not the "God" of the Bible); all leading to what the Quietists 
called the "Unitive Life"  (sound familiar?).  At any rate, Molinos was 
eventually tried for Heresy and died in the Inquisition prison.But thanks to 
people like George Fox, the Quietist movement lived on under different names.

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